Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi told a nationwide radio audience to go ahead and celebrate the country's New Year without him: "I am sorry not to be able to personally participate in the rejoicing of my nation on this festive occasion. In order to ensure the...
The occasion was one to stir the hearts of all the Queen's loyal subjects in Bermuda, certainly the oldest and quite possibly the stuffiest colony in the whole glamorous, dwindling British Empire. A gleaming, 25-ship fleet of the British and Canadian navies lay at anchor in Hamilton...
"On the Level." For Atkinson, Marilyn Monroe arrived on time. Helen Hayes gave the critic a huge silver tray inscribed with the names of all 130 guests, some of whom had not spoken to each other for years. Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz composed a song for the occasion ("A...
Some of the agencies have proved on occasion that they can overcome, or at least cut down, the lengthy and costly red tape that makes a nightmare out of the simplest issue. The FTC was a slow-moving bureaucracy when former Chairman Edward Howrey took over in 1953. He eliminated...
To this wealth of misconceptions. Ambassador Francis sometimes added a weird and wily nugget of his own. On one occasion, he authorized the chief of the American military mission to help Trotsky in the formation of the new Red army on the ground that such an army could "by proper...